2026

AWS showed how to search for solar flares in SageMaker AI using ESA STIX instrument data
AWS published a breakdown showing how to train and deploy an LSTM model in SageMaker AI for detecting solar flares using ESA STIX instrument

Rebellions raises $400M pre-IPO at $2.34B valuation, eyes US market
South Korean Rebellions closed a pre-IPO round for $400M, bringing total fundraising in six months to $650M, and now targets US clients at t

Resilience: AI Accelerated Cyberattacks, Response Window for Defenders Narrowed to Minutes
Reports from Resilience, IBM, and ReliaQuest show: generative AI hasn't invented new attack types, but has dramatically accelerated phishing

Why Neural Networks Fail to Predict Moscow Exchange Markets—and Where ML Actually Helps Traders
Analysis of ML in trading reveals why neural networks struggle with direct price forecasting, yet help identify market regimes, filter trade

Habr AI: Self-Organizing LLM Agents Outperformed Hierarchical Systems by 14%
An experiment on 25,000 tasks showed that LLM agents perform better without imposed roles: self-organization, specialization choice, and the

Habr AI Author Proposes Deterministic AI on MacBook Air Over GPU Race
A GPU race manifesto has appeared on Habr: the author argues that a deterministic AI kernel in Rust with O(1) logic can run locally on MacBo

AI agents reshape the development cycle: where Scrum contracts, where humans remain essential
AI agents do accelerate development, but unevenly: in new projects, control shifts to observability; in legacy code, validation becomes more

Alibaba Releases Qwen3.5-Omni — Native Multimodal Model for Text, Audio, and Video
Alibaba has unveiled Qwen3.5-Omni — a native omnimodal model that understands text, images, audio, and video in a single architecture and ca

Microsoft to invest over $1 billion in Thailand's cloud, data centers, and AI infrastructure
Microsoft announced investments exceeding $1 billion in Thailand for 2026–2028: the funds will go toward data centers, cybersecurity, sovere

FSBio Describes Metabolic AI Runtime — AI Architecture with "Homeostasis" Instead of Empathic Prompts
FSBio Claims That True Machine Empathy Is Impossible in Standard Transformer Models, Proposing Metabolic AI Runtime with Internal State, Mem

Equinix to invest 7.5 billion rand in new data centers in South Africa amid AI demand growth
Equinix is preparing to expand data centers in South Africa with a 7.5 billion rand investment, betting on rapid growth in local demand for

OpenAI at Potential IPO: $850bn Valuation Now Demands Profit, Not Just Growth
OpenAI, valued at $850bn, approaches a potential IPO amid massive data-center and chip spending. The market no longer wants growth promises—

Lansoft names AI technologies that will reach production in 2026
In Lansoft's analysis, optimized transformers are named as the main candidates for production in 2026, while quantum ML and mass-market BCI

AiConf 2026 shifts format: interactive sessions, networking, and hands-on work replace lectures
AiConf 2026 moves away from traditional AI conference format, pivoting toward interactive sessions, collaborative work, and networking so pa

Microsoft taught Copilot Researcher to cross-check GPT and Claude answers in a single process
Microsoft added a Critique mode to Copilot Researcher, where GPT prepares the answer and Claude verifies it for accuracy, while simultaneous

How ecom.tech sees the union of AI, analytics, and 1C: what already works and where the risks lie
ecom.tech demonstrated how AI is integrating into the 1C ecosystem: from semantic search and code review to video support bots, but without

MIT Technology Review: Why Standard AI Tests No Longer Show Real-World Value
MIT Technology Review explores why high AI test scores often don't match real-world performance in hospitals, companies, and NGOs, and propo

Zhipu Increases Losses by 60% Amid Fierce Competition in China's AI Market
Zhipu reported a 60% increase in net losses for 2025, demonstrating how costly the race for models, customers, and computing resources has b

Raft Analyzed Where MCP and Thin MCP Add Latency to AI Agents
Raft compared five architecture options for AI agents and showed that the main cause of delays is often not Python or HTTP, but the number o

Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Claude Code Source Code via npm Source Map
Internal Claude Code source code was exposed through .map files in an npm package, revealing a multi-agent mode, memory 'dreams' system, hid

DeepSeek V4 Launches With Focus on Price and Everyday Tasks: Review and First Tests
DeepSeek V4 is positioned as an affordable alternative to leading chatbots: early reviews praise its competitive pricing, reliable performan

Google and Meta Lose Leading AI Researchers as New Startups Rapidly Raise Billions
Former researchers from Google DeepMind, Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic are launching AI startups and securing hundreds of millions or even bil

OpenAI Released Privacy Filter: Open Model for Removing Personal Data
OpenAI published Privacy Filter — an open-source model for automatic detection and replacement of personal data, working directly in the bro

US FDA to Accelerate Drug Trials With AI and Real-Time Data
The US regulator wants to see drug safety and efficacy signals directly during clinical trials to eliminate months of bureaucratic delay and

AI Rally in Asia Creates New Winners Deep in the Chip Supply Chain
The AI investment boom in Asia extends beyond tier-one chipmakers to the entire tier-two supplier ecosystem—from CoWoS substrates to cooling

AWS Launches OpenAI Models After Microsoft Abandons Azure Exclusivity
AWS has opened access to OpenAI models through Bedrock immediately after Microsoft removed the Azure exclusivity—now the key question is whe

Goldman Sachs disabled access to Anthropic's Claude for employees in Hong Kong
Goldman Sachs employees in Hong Kong lost access to Anthropic's Claude: the bank restricted use of the code development tool and has not yet

Google Permits Pentagon to Use Its AI Systems in Secret Military Tasks
Google has signed an agreement with the US Department of Defense and allowed the use of its AI systems in classified military projects — ami

EVRAZ Implements Neural Network for Steel Heating and Gas Consumption Reduction in Rolling Mill
EVRAZ deployed a recommendation system with digital twins of furnaces in NTMK hot rolling: it suggests heating modes for blanks and helps re

Mayo Clinic: AI Learned to Detect Pancreatic Cancer Years Before Clinical Diagnosis
Mayo Clinic's REDMOD system detects signs of pancreatic cancer on routine CT scans an average of 475 days before diagnosis and significantly

EU and European Parliament fail to agree on AI Act amendments after 12 hours of negotiations
EU and European Parliament fail to agree on AI Act amendments: the key dispute centers on whether to exempt high-risk AI systems embedded in

OpenAI and Promptflow: How to Build an LLM Pipeline with Tracing and Quality Evaluation
The guide shows how to build an LLM pipeline in Google Colab using Promptflow, Prompty, and OpenAI with secure key configuration, run tracin

Turnitin and OpenAI Are Losing: Why AI Detectors Can No Longer Distinguish Humans From Models
Language models have learned to mimic human style so well that AI detectors work almost like a coin flip: they make mistakes, catch the inno

MIT Accelerates Private AI Training on Ordinary Devices for Medicine and Finance
MIT researchers proposed a method to accelerate federated learning on smartphones, sensors, and smartwatches while keeping data on-device an

OpenAI and LinkedIn: Why Prompt Writing Has Become Critical for Career
OpenAI, Microsoft, and LinkedIn reveal one trend: the ability to write precise prompts is becoming a work skill, and vague requests now harm

Meta FAIR Releases NeuralSet — Python Package for Connecting Neural Data and AI Models
Meta FAIR opened NeuralSet — a Python framework that combines fMRI, M/EEG, spikes, and Hugging Face embeddings into a single PyTorch pipelin

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5: agentic model stronger than GPT-5.4, but API pricing doubled
OpenAI introduced GPT-5.5 as a model for real-world work and AI agents: it handles multi-step tasks better, but API pricing is twice as high

Sber Develops GigaChain Without Forking LangChain, Betting on a Compatibility Package
Sber explained how it develops GigaChain around GigaChat: the team rejected a heavy LangChain fork, built a compatibility package, and is cr

General Motors to Replace Google Assistant with Gemini in 4 Million US Vehicles
General Motors has begun an OTA update for approximately 4 million vehicles from 2022 onwards in the US: Google Gemini will replace Google A

Timeweb Cloud explains how edge detection filters work: from Roberts to Canny detector
Timeweb Cloud released a detailed guide on edge detection in images: it covers derivatives, Roberts, Prewitt, Sobel, Laplacian, Canny operat

Solaria raises €300M to power AI data centers with solar and batteries
Spanish Solaria raised €300M for data center sites with solar generation and batteries, betting on grid capacity shortage in Europe amid AI

Cognizant buys Astreya for $600M to strengthen enterprise AI infrastructure
Cognizant has agreed to acquire Astreya for $600M to fill a critical gap in its AI strategy—adding the data centers, networks, and infrastru

All3 raises $25M to automate construction with AI and quadruped robots
London-based All3 raised $25M for a system that combines AI-powered design, robotic factories, and Mantis quadruped robot for building assem

OpenAI Claims ChatGPT Learned to Count Letters, But Still Fails on Simple Words
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT now correctly answers questions about the letters in strawberry, but users quickly demonstrated: behind this n

Peter Publishing House released a book on conversational AI and chatbots that work
Peter Publishing House presented a book on effective conversational AI: it focuses on LLM-based chatbot creation, dialogue design, and real

Investors pour billions into humanoid robots with AI, but value remains unproven
Investors are pouring billions into humanoid robots with AI, but mass interest is outpacing proven utility: the industry still needs to demo

SpeShu.AI explained how to find work in AI amid growing job vacancies in Russia
SpeShu.AI highlighted a market paradox: the number of AI-skill vacancies in Russia reached 16.5k per quarter, but high competition and hundr

MIT and IBM Open New Laboratory at the Intersection of AI, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing
MIT and IBM announced the launch of MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab: the new platform will unite research in AI, algorithms, and quantum comp

Russian companies sued over AI-generated work by employees, but courts rarely rule in their favor
Russia is experiencing a growing number of disputes over work completed with neural networks, but courts typically focus not on AI itself, b

Dex raised $5.3M to source AI engineers for startups via an AI agent
London startup Dex raised $5.3M in seed funding and is building an AI agent for recruitment that interviews engineers, matches them to roles

Apple to add AI tools for photo editing in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
According to Bloomberg, Apple is preparing built-in AI features for photo processing on iPhone, iPad, and Mac to close the gap with Google a

DeepSeek V4 Drives Demand for Huawei Ascend 950 Among ByteDance and Alibaba
Following DeepSeek V4's release, optimized for Huawei Ascend 950, Chinese IT giants have begun requesting new batches of accelerators, inten

Google Translate adds pronunciation training for foreign words and phrases to its mobile app
Google added a pronunciation training feature to mobile Translate: the app will help you pronounce foreign words and phrases more accurately

AI Model Evaluation Now Costs More Than Training — A New Barrier for Researchers
EvalEval Coalition analyzed the cost of AI-benchmarks: a single agentic test costs $40,000 or more, and academic groups can no longer afford

The Qwen team released FlashQLA: accelerating linear attention up to 3× on NVIDIA Hopper
QwenLM released FlashQLA — a CUDA kernel library for Gated Delta Network that delivers up to 3× performance gain on NVIDIA Hopper GPU for pr

Anthropic's Opus 4.7 consumes more tokens: hidden inflation at unchanged prices
In Anthropic's Opus 4.7, the same text may require significantly more tokens than in Opus 4.6 — with prices unchanged, this is a subtle but

Alfa-Bank Showed How Skeptics Deployed an Internal HR Service to Production with GLM-5
Alfa-Bank described an experiment with GLM-5: a team of team lead, analyst, and product manager shipped an HR service to production in just

How a YADRO Developer Configures Claude Code with Spec-Driven Development
A YADRO architect has been managing AI agents using SDD methodology for nine months and explains how to configure Claude Code to switch mode

Cambricon Doubled Quarterly Revenue Amid AI Chip Demand Boom in China
Chinese AI chip developer Cambricon more than doubled its revenue in Q1 2026, demonstrating how Beijing's push for technological autonomy is

How Just AI Helped a Bank Break Through Automation Ceiling with LLM-Agents
Hundreds of NLU-scenario branches — yet the automation rate still stalled. Just AI migrated the bank's support to LLM-agents and added a jud